Employment Law News from the EEOC

• Friday, July 18, 2025
  BUFFALO, N.Y.— Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing, Inc., a Buffalo steel galvanizing business, will pay $360,000 and provide other relief to settle a race and national origin harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/frontier-hot-dip-galvanizing-pay-360000-eeoc-race-national-origin-harassment-and

 

• Thursday, July 17, 2025
  NEWARK, N.J. — Pearson Education, Inc., an educational publishing and services company producing textbooks, online courseware and testing/assessment services, violated federal law when it failed to provide employees who are blind or have other visual impairments with equal access to employee benefits, performance, leave information and required trainings, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a federal lawsuit today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-pearson-education-disability-discrimination

 

• Wednesday, July 16, 2025
  DENVER – Western Distributing Co., a corporate conglomerate consisting of at least 15 companies, including Western Distributing Transportation Company, United States Armored Co. (USAC) and Western Towing and Recovery, will pay $919,000 to former employees and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/western-distributing-pay-919000-eeoc-disability-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Academy Mortgage Corporation, an Albuquerque mortgage lending company, has entered into a public conciliation agreement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to resolve a sex discrimination and retaliation charge, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/academy-mortgage-pay-75000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-charge

 

• Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  WASHINGTON — Westminster Ingleside King Farm Presbyterian Retirement Communities, Inc., a management company operating several retirement and assisted living facilities in the Greater Washington area, will pay $85,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and retaliation discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/westminster-ingleside-pay-85000-eeoc-race-and-retaliation-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, July 7, 2025
  DETROIT – FCA US, LLC, an international automobile manufacturer of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram and Fiat car brands, violated federal law by refusing to accommodate an employee’s request to observe the Sabbath and take unpaid leave for Passover, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-charges-fca-firing-worker-practicing-his-faith

 

• Thursday, July 3, 2025
  LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today it filed an action in federal court to enforce a subpoena issued during its investigation into claims of illegal hiring practices by Vallarta Food Enterprises, Inc. and related companies, collectively known as the trade name Vallarta Supermarkets, in Central and Southern California.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-files-subpoena-enforcement-action-against-vallarta-food-enterprises

 

• Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  OAKLAND, Calif. – Everport Terminal Services (ETS), which operates a terminal at the Port of Oakland, agreed to provide $200,000 to a former employee following an investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/everport-terminal-services-pay-200000-settle-eeoc-disability-discrimination-charge

 

• Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  LAS VEGAS – Venetian Las Vegas Gaming, LLC and Venetian Las Vegas Marketing, Inc. (collectively doing business as “The Venetian Resort Las Vegas”), a hotel and casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip, will pay $850,000 and implement significant policy changes via a three-year consent decree to settle a religious discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/venetian-resort-las-vegas-settles-religious-discrimination-and-retaliation-lawsuit

 

• Wednesday, July 2, 2025
  MILWAUKEE— Crystal Ridge Ski Area, LLC, doing business as The Rock Snowpark, a winter sports park and summer events venue in Franklin, Wisconsin, violated federal law when it terminated a lift operations manager because of his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-rock-snowpark-religious-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, July 1, 2025
  ATLANTA – 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the southeastern United States, violated federal law by discriminating against a class of employees when it denied them reasonable accommodations and then fired them because of their disabilities, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-1st-franklin-financial-corporation-disability-discrimination

 

• Monday, June 30, 2025
  SAN FRANCISCO—Global retailer Walmart, Inc. violated federal law when it failed to provide a readily available reasonable accommodation for an employee with a disability, which would have allowed her to return to work; instead, the company placed her on unpaid leave, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-walmart-disability-discrimination-8

 

• Monday, June 30, 2025
  KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Malone Workforce Solutions subjected female employees at the company’s Omaha, Nebraska, healthcare staffing office to unlawful sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-healthcare-staffing-company-sexual-harassment

 

• Monday, June 30, 2025
  OXFORD, Miss.—Intrepid Gymnastics, LLC, a gymnastics studio formerly operating in Horn Lake, Mississippi, will pay $50,000 and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/intrepid-gymnastics-pay-50000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-suit

 

• Monday, June 30, 2025
  ATLANTA – Action Insulation Co., a general contractor specializing in insulation installation and asbestos abatement located in Port Wentworth, Georgia, violated federal law by subjecting its office manager to sexual harassment by its owner, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it recently filed.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-action-insulation-sexual-harassment

 

• Friday, June 27, 2025
  CHICAGO – Omni Hotels Management Corporation, an international hotel chain company headquartered in Dallas, violated federal law at its Michigan Avenue location in Chicago when it discriminated against an employee by denying his request to not work on Sundays due to his religion, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The suit also alleged that Omni retaliated against the employee for requesting an accommodation by substantially reducing his hours.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-omni-hotels-religious-discrimination-and-retaliation

 

• Wednesday, June 25, 2025
  MIAMI – Waste Pro of Florida agreed to pay $1.4 million and furnish comprehensive injunctive relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/waste-pro-florida-pay-14-million-eeoc-race-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Tuesday, June 24, 2025
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — QSR Pita USA Inc., which manages Pita Pit restaurants, violated federal law when it fired an employee of the Pita Pit in Sioux Falls after she disclosed her pregnancy and request for an accommodation for pregnancy-related nausea, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-qsr-pita-usa-inc-pregnancy-and-disability-discrimination

 

• Tuesday, June 24, 2025
  Cleveland – DialAmerica Marketing, LLC, a provider of telemarketing and call-center services for third-party clients, will pay $85,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charging race and sex discrimination and retaliation, the federal agency announced today.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/dialamerica-marketing-pay-85000-eeoc-race-sex-and-retaliatory-discrimination-lawsuit

 

• Monday, June 23, 2025
  DENVER – 'Murica LLC, operator of the Western-themed Starlite Station bar and dance hall in Greeley, Colorado, and its owners will pay $100,000 to former employees and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced.
  Read More: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/starlite-station-pay-100000-eeoc-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation-lawsuit